‖ einfühlung Psychol.
(ˈaɪnfyːlʊŋ)
Also Ein-.
[G., see empathy.]
= empathy.
| 1904, etc. [see empathy]. 1925 I. A. Richards Princ. Lit. Crit. xv. 108 The work done by Lipps, Groos and others on einfühlung, or empathy. 1929 C. I. Lewis Mind & World-Order ii. 41 ‘Real duration’..is something which is immediate, in his own case, and is to be apprehended in its other manifestations only by empathy or einfühlung. 1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 May 374/2 If..a doctrine of Einfühlung could be established. 1966 English Studies XLVII. 311 Some of the elements which have caused Vernon Lee..to be almost forgotten by a later age, to the point of not even crediting her with the introduction of the idea of Einfühlung or empathy. |